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much," Jones said. "Since the truck has
American Proteins' name on the side we
don't want it to smell or look dirty."
License to operate
Kyzar said taking care of the environment provides American Proteins its
"license to do business, and if you loose
throughout your plant." Receiving fresh offal at the facility and processing it quickly
with the best technology ensures that odor
is not a major problem.
The Cuthbert facility also goes the
extra mile to maintain its ability to land
apply its treated effluent. Around 400,000
gallons of wastewater a day are treated in
At the Cuthbert plant, water, energy,
protein and fat are recovered and are
either sold or put back to work in the
rendering facility; nothing goes to
waste.
that license to do business you might as
well just shut the doors."
Odor control plays a part in maintaining
a license to operate for a renderer and Kyzar
said it all starts with logistics. "Logistics
are a key to keeping odors down. Once
material rots, you can spread the smell
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the facility, and the condensate from the
condensers makes up the majority of this.
Five spray fields totalling 240 acres receive
the treated effluent and produce a crop of
rye grass hay in the winter and Bermuda
grass in the summer. A total of 89,000 bales
of hay are produced in a year.
The original permit allowed for a certain number of pounds of nitrogen to be
land applied per acre and no soil sampling
was required. American Proteins did some
soil sampling and determined that the grass
wasn't using all of the nitrogen they were
allowed to apply, so more acreage was
added to the spray fields. Now application
of nutrients is made based on plant needs
and soil tests.
Since reused water now cools the condensers, there are times of the year when
plant operations generate no water for land
application. A 20 million-gallon lagoon for
water storage allows for water to be carried
forward from the winter months (when
there is a surplus) into the summer when
plant needs exceed the water generated by
operations. ■
Terrence O'Keefe is editor of Egg
Industry magazine, the WATT
Agribusiness publication serving the
commercial egg industry.

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